The following post on Abdel Hameed al-Yusef, who was portrayed as an innocent grieving father of ‘deceased’ twins across the entire global mainstream media in the wake of the White Helmets reported April 4, 2017 chemical related event in Khan Sheikhoun, Syria, reveals the ‘victim’ to be an anti-Syrian government enemy combatant working in collusion with al-Nusra Front terrorist group. The evidence proving such is ascertained via a large number of screen-captured images taken from his own Facebook social media account along with the accounts of his brother and close associates.

This post will NOT so much focus on what happened at the April 4th Idlib chemical event, so much as it will examine the postings, associates and actions of Abdel Hamid Yusef, the media’s chosen “main character” of the rather cloudy event. At the conclusion to this post, theories and additional linked evidence will be offered in regards to what happened in Khan Sheikhoun on April 4th, 2017. Now lets take a look at the Facebook images.

The following images come from the Facebook page of Abdel Hamid al-Yusef, the aforementioned bereaved father promoted by mainstream media outlets. The link to his account is provided at the conclusion of this post. This is Abdel Hamid Yusef……….

Images of his terrorist accomplices gathered from the same account……

List of family members supposedly killed in April 4th chemical event.

The following images are ascertained from the Facebook account of Mohammad al-Yusef, the brother of Abdel Hamid al-Yusef. (He is supposedly now deceased due to the April 4th chemical event according to the list above),

Strangely, the following image of his crying brother was uploaded to his Facebook account on April 5th, 2017, one day after Mohammed supposedly died.

This image of an infant from the April 4th White Helmets chemical event was uploaded to his account on April 6th, two days after Mohammed supposedly died.

His Facebook page also has pics of Hadi Abadallah who is the most well-known lead propaganda disseminator for al-Nusra Front terrorists and other jihadist groups in Syria.

He also has this rather interesting picture featuring a half burned Russian ID of a woman on his Facebook page……

The following Facebook account belongs to Alaa al-Yusef who acts as a liaison for Abdel Hamid al-Yusef, and who has provided an introduction and timely convenient photo opportunities with Turkish President Recyep Erdogan on April 7th, 2017, as well as providing the material for the Associated Press to use in their stories (as shown below).

This additional Abdel Hamid al-Yusef group account captures more images of the propaganda opportunities…….. I have juxtaposed these images alongside western mainstream media produced content to provide examples of the global propaganda machine in action promoting these individuals.

ABC News

Erdogan receives the love……

Hadi Abadallah (far left) , the lead propaganda disseminator for al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda in Syria) and other jihadists help him reach the burial site……

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley gets special recognition in the account stream for providing the front…….

‘Handler’ Alaa al-Yusef provides the connections to make sure the AP is onboard…….

Thank god for close friends and family………..how else would one get through the drama of it all?

NBC News was more than happy to present the narrative with no investigation whatsoever. A simple Facebook search would have provided them access to the same information and images that are in this Clarity of Signal post.

Oh the humanity…………

The following images and videos feature the portrayed victim Abdel Hamid Yusef with Hadi Abadallah who is one of the most well-known propaganda disseminators for the terrorist groups in Syria. He has been photographed on numerous occasions alongside Abdullah al-Muhaysini, the leader of al-Nusra Front in Syria, and he is also one of the main subjects of the “Tapestry of Terror” video documentary on the fake White Helmets and various ruses related to the western and Gulf State projected war on Syria.

One of Hadi’s Abadallah’s more obscure al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda in Syria) videos shows him standing over the dead bodies of Syrian soldiers and showing their dog tags with ISIS terrorists-

Additional videos of Hadi Abadallah are featured at the “False Flagger” link above and show him clearly working alongside and colluding with terrorist groups in Syria.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF), TV5 Monde France and the U.S. Embassy Syria apparently like the way he rolls and the company he keeps, as they have provided awards and accolades for his pro-terrorist ‘reporting’ in Syria.

Resources

Account links and information……(Note that some items have been scrubbed over the last 24 hours since I started putting this post together. Items that are scrubbed I will provide a screenshot of the address and message now received for the address.

Looks like some items are being scrubbed between May 1st and 2nd as I get this post together. I think I made it in through the window though and have caught plenty of evidence of what they are really up to.

Note the following now appears at his brother Mohammad’s account when info is input…..

For this post I have chosen not to provide my opinion of exactly what happened at Idlib on April 4th, 2017. Instead I will simply provide viewers with some important links and video so that folks can research and come to their own conclusions.

One of the best places online to attain info on the April 4, 2017 chemical event in Idlib, Syria is the “A Closer Look on Syria” website. Numerous images, videos and witness testimonies of the entire event are cached there, as well as sun azimuths (for time specification), location and area mapping, explanations of involved characters, camera angle analysis, chemical expert analysis and so forth. I highly recommend this excellent resource.

Caveat: The Clarity of Signal website worked in conjunction with A Closer Look on Syria website in order to ascertain the material for this entire post. We colluded and discussed images and involved parties in order to determine exact personnel and responsibilities related to the April 4, 2017 alleged chemical attack. A Closer Look on Syria operates out of Finland and Clarity of Signal is US based. Suffice it to say, we are not Putin Trolls, we are concerned global citizens who have taken a responsibility to help humanity see what is really going on in the world. We encourage others to do the same.

MOSCOW, April 20. /TASS/. No serious steps have been taken to investigate into the alleged chemical incident in Syria’s Khan Shaykhun, Director of the Armaments Non-Proliferation and Control Department at the Russian Foreign Ministry Mikhail Ulyanov said.

The text of his address to the special session of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), held in The Hague on April 19, has been published on the ministry’s website on Thursday.

“Reports (about the alleged chemical attack in Khan Shaykhun) started coming 15 days ago but no steps have yet been taken in order to investigate into this incident,” he said. “In any case, we did not hear about representatives of the OPCW visiting the Khan Shaykhun area.”

Link to Tapestry of Terror Documentary that reveals White Helmets as terrorists, as well as numerous Syrian war ruses being propagated via western media.

This post will present over 100 screen-captured Facebook images that have been cached from the Facebook accounts of one dozen White Helmet members and will highlight the fact that these White Helmets post images to their own Facebook accounts that are in support of the FSA and various designated terrorist groups, including al-Nusra Front, Nour al -Zinki (child beheaders), al-Qaeda, and others.

Methodology

This gathering of images was conducted by utilizing the Facebook “Friends” feature directly from the account of Majd Khalaf who is one of the lead propaganda disseminators for the White Helmet group on Twitter. Each of his Facebook White Helmet ‘friends’ leads to another ‘friend’, and so forth, thus making it quite easy to utilize his Facebook page as a reference point (hub) and branch out from there going through hundreds of White Helmets Facebook pages. In this case, I decided to highlight a dozen accounts to provide an example of White Helmet terrorist connections. I encourage other researchers to do the same so that an even larger body of evidence can be ascertained for future reference. Each image includes the name of the White Helmet poster in the right hand corner and thus each subsequent image utilizing the same name shows what that particular White Helmet/FSA terrorist decided to post up on their page. Thus, establishing their likes, links, proclivities and admiration for terrorist related activities. The online addresses of the Facebook accounts which were examined are included at the bottom of this post for further reference.

Note also: Facebook appears to not monitor these terrorist accounts and I have personally noticed that many atrocities are being uploaded to these accounts, including beheadings. Proof of such is at the following CoS link:

Ironically, people in the US and Europe are being censored by Facebook for posting news articles that are being designated by Facebook and its associated ‘fact-checkers’ as ‘fake news’. This blatant hypocrisy on the part of Facebook is absolutely pathetic, immoral and disgusting.

These are the images Facebook and western governments seem to approve of, and choose not to even investigate…….one has to wonder why.

The following photos are from the Facebook page of Abdul Hamid Sallat who is another lead propaganda disseminator for the White Helmets who works directly for Orient News in Qatar providing information for the Gulf State region. He has dozens of images at his page proving him to be a terrorist in collusion with the al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda in Syria). The 2nd image highlights that he also works with Turkish organizations

The following images taken from Abdul Hamid Sallat’s Facebook page features one of the Nour al-Zinki terrorists that beheaded 12 year old Abdullah Issa in the back of truck in July 2016. This individual is also featured in the “Tapestry of Terror” video linked above.

His page also features well known White Helmet terrorists….

and other terrorist propaganda disseminators such as Hadi Abadallah….

as well as numerous displays of the al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda in Syria) terrorist flag…..

It is remarkable that western governments and social media giants allow all this terrorist activity to go on unchecked and uninvestigated, but alas, in the New American Century it seems that “up is down and down is up”. The terrorists appear to have been provided an open platform by western governments and institutions to conduct their murderous agenda and run rough shod over humanity.

The following screen captured images of authentic news stories, Facebook rules and posts, Google, Twitter and Snopes related stories highlight the current censorship and control agenda that is taking place during the era of the US orchestrated New Cold War, and the Global Awakening to the crimes of the Global Elite and corrupt mainstream media. These posts reveal a pattern of manipulative behavior and censorship on the part of government, search engines and social media giants. They reveal methods, techniques, applications, rules and behaviors as well as articles that examine and put forth complaints and concerns about the various forms of ongoing censorship related to such.

Corrupt MSM propaganda outfits lead the way to censorship in collusion with ‘fact checking’ sites such as Snopes, Politifact and Factcheck.

The best U.S. reporters who work for mainstream channels and expose what is really going on are forced offline and their social media accounts deleted.

The real agenda becomes quite obvious for those that wish to see……

Some stories never get seen due to Facebook deciding which content is worthy of viewing…..

Nieman Lab provides helpful explanations on how the censorship will take place……..like a scene from Huxley’s “Brave New World”…….. the censorship arrives in an nice package easy to accept by those who have been blinded with glittery objects.

Just as in Brave New Worlds! You get the privilege of censoring yourself!

Blatant control of the agenda through censorship adjustment of algorithms that filter out ‘undesirable’ content………

In the new age of anti-Russia propaganda and implementation of the New Cold War by the US government, military industrial complex and global elitists that are enriched through such, its easy to see why they want censorship rules imposed. Some news simply doesn’t help the Deep State global domination agenda.

Meanwhile….some countries get a free pass, and even attain extra censorship tools handed directly to them by the CEO of Facebook in order to gain a larger market share.

Snipes continues to party down………

All the information above clearly shows that we live in an age of information censorship, surveillance and control, where true freedom to express oneself is repressed by giant corporations that collude with the government in the implementation of information dissemination, and through deciding which specific articles are ‘news’ worthy and which are not.

These large corporations cloak themselves under the banner of being private entities, and thus, stating that they have the right to pick and choose content that they feel suits their target audience. However, due to the fact that they have become essentially information monopolies that control over 90% of data being transferred to the respective citizenry (who are also technically their product), they should be held to the same standards as a government entity, particularly since they are collaborating with the government more and more each day.

They are representing the people and taking advantage of the people at the same time, while deciding upon themselves what they feel the citizenry should be allowed to see. This is how Big Brother truly comes…….through the private mass entity which has switched places in collusion with the government and now works to keep the citizenry in line with the government agenda, while at the same time claiming themselves free from criticism due to them being a private corporation. In a sense, Facebook and Google have become “too big to fail” and thus, should be reined in as they have had way too much power for way too long a period of time……..and the censorship is only going to get worse.

This censorship is taking place in an era where people are waking up to the fact that western governments been supporting terrorist groups and murderous regimes in order to enrich and empower the global 0.01% elitists that rule over us. We must continue to persevere and break through this obvious propaganda barrage and blatant global censorship in order to make our world safer for all humanity.

More here on the censorship agenda of the corrupt global elite:

Additional Clarity of Signal thread highlights You Tube demonetization of popular political accounts that don’t toe the establishment media line and follow the corrupt government scripts.

The well-known White Helmet and Jund-Al-Aqsa terrorist Muawiya Hassan Agha along with his terrorist accomplices were present at the site of the devastating bombing of civilians being evacuated from the Shiite villages of Fuah and Kafriya on April 15, 2017 as proven by his own acknowledgement. This fact was made known on his own Facebook page. ( Additional note – Facebook allows the terrorists in Syria free rein to promote themselves- many of their own posts show them leading a double life as both weapon carrying terrorists conducting atrocities and fake White Helmet humanitarian rescuers saving small children. Many of their postings include actual beheadings even though the posting of these horrific warcrimes is in clear violation of Facebook’s own posting policies, however, it seems Facebook continually allows this to go on unchecked. Many of the pictures attained by online terrorist trackers and researchers come from these unregulated Facebook pages.

Muawiya Hassan Agha states on his own Facebook page that he was present in the vicinity of the Rashideen at the time of the Bus bombing/massacre.

Photo of Muawiya Hassan Agha dated April 14 shows he attended loading of buses around time of massacre.

Muawiya Hassan Agha and his jihadists accomplices, who have appeared as White Helmets, Jund Al Aqsa and Al Qaeda, should be among the primary suspects of the bombing attack in Rashideen. There is also the suspicion that this group is responsible not only for the bombing, but also for the subsequent abduction of numerous persons, most of them children, in terrorist controlled towns in the province of Idlib, and the exploitation of the chaos caused by the bombing that was intentionally misreported by western media outlets.

In the following photos we see Muawiya Hassan Agha conducting his regular terrorist activity and posting it to his Facebook page.

Here he is with captured Syrian soldiers who were tortured on camera and later executed, as proven below

Image of murdered Syrian Army soldier post execution.

Facebook screen capture shows Muawiya Hassan Agha took part in execution and uploaded image of execution of the captured Syrian Army soldier.

His Facebook page shows his many dubious activities……

And here he is with his White Helmet accomplices…..

Judging from the photos above, plus the fact that Muawiya Hassan Agha admits on his Facebook page that he was present at the bus attack in Rashideen on April 15, 2017, it is quite disturbing that western media sources have ignored this important aspect of this incredibly tragic story. It seems that this terrorist is also being given a free pass when it comes to scrutiny related to the terrorist activities of the White Helmets. This is especially disturbing as children in terrorist besieged towns are continually being abducted, killed and used in false flag events carried out by the western supported terrorists in Syria while the US, UK, western and Gulf State media’s continue to be complicit in the cover up of these barbaric atrocities.

Robert Fisk, writing for the Independent, criticized Western governments for a double standard regarding the attack, contrasting their silence on the bombing with their reaction to the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack earlier in the month; he said that “after this weekend’s suicide bombing […] the White House said nothing […] because–and here’s the point–they were the victims of the wrong kind of killer.”

The question’s should be asked “Why are western media outlets completely ignoring the presence of this well known terrorist at the Rashideen Bus bombing that killed so many innocent people?” “Do the lives of these innocent children and families mean absolutely nothing to these corrupt western media outlets?” Of course, the question is purely rhetorical, but it should be asked nonetheless……..again and again…….. to expose the sociopaths and psychopaths who are complicit in the cover-up and false framing of this and other horrific false flag events related to the U.S., U.K., Israeli, Western and Gulf State regime change agenda in Syria.

A large amount of the information attained for this post is attributed to the following German WordPress site and has been translated and reuploaded here at CoS for English speaking audiences. Additional information can be obtained at the links below:

This video shows what really took place as the children were being finally rescued by the Syrian government from the terrorist held towns. This is what you will not see on western television. Highly graphic warning.

There should be no doubt who did this.
1. This was in a ‘rebel’ area where they control all traffic in and out.
2. The ‘rebels’ are the only ones who use suicide bombings.
3. The ‘rebels’ have already attacked other convoys trying to evacuate civilians.
4. The ‘rebels’ have already declared it OK to kill Shia and Alawite men women and children just for being the wrong sect.
5. The ‘rebels’ were complaining the deal wasn’t good enough.

Additional photos from the Facebook page of terrorist Muawiya Hassan Agha. (Note excessive use of children in the photos at his Facebook page mixed in with al-Qaeda propaganda, al-Nusra Front flags, photos of White Helmets and images of Bin Laden and other terrorists. Link to Facebook page.

Obama Quietly Signs The “Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act” Into Law

Late on Friday, with the US population embracing the upcoming holidays and oblivious of most news emerging from the administration, Obama quietly signed into law the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which authorizes $611 billion for the military in 2017.

In a statement, Obama said that:

Today, I have signed into law S. 2943, the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017.” This Act authorizes fiscal year 2017 appropriations principally for the Department of Defense and for Department of Energy national security programs, provides vital benefits for military personnel and their families, and includes authorities to facilitate ongoing operations around the globe. It continues many critical authorizations necessary to ensure that we are able to sustain our momentum in countering the threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and to reassure our European allies, as well as many new authorizations that, among other things, provide the Departments of Defense and Energy more flexibility in countering cyber-attacks and our adversaries’ use of unmanned aerial vehicles.”

But while the passage of the NDAA – and the funding of the US military – was hardly a surprise, the biggest news is what was buried deep inside the provisions of the Defense Authortization Act.

Recall that as we reported in early June, “a bill to implement the U.S.’ very own de facto Ministry of Truth had been quietly introduced in Congress. As with any legislation attempting to dodge the public spotlight the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act of 2016 marks a further curtailment of press freedom and another avenue to stultify avenues of accurate information. Introduced by Congressmen Adam Kinzinger and Ted Lieu, H.R. 5181 seeks a “whole-government approach without the bureaucratic restrictions” to counter “foreign disinformation and manipulation,” which they believe threaten the world’s “security and stability.” Also called the Countering Information Warfare Act of 2016 (S. 2692), when introduced in March by Sen. Rob Portman, the legislation represents a dramatic return to Cold War-era government propaganda battles. “These countries spend vast sums of money on advanced broadcast and digital media capabilities, targeted campaigns, funding of foreign political movements, and other efforts to influence key audiences and populations,” Portman explained, adding that while the U.S. spends a relatively small amount on its Voice of America, the Kremlin provides enormous funding for its news organization, RT.

We are faced by a shocking fact these days: the profession of journalism, and I speak of mainstream media journalism, has descended into truly toxic levels of printed and broadcast disinformation. One can now virtually count on the fact that what is being said on any topic of political significance, will be a carefully scripted trotting-out of government and corporate propaganda.

That is not journalism. That is what George Orwell called ‘Newspeak’.

It is a dangerous game which these news hacks are playing. They are witnessing one event and describing it as quite another event. Let me amplify this by looking at the stories emanating out of the Middle East.

It must be obvious to most of us by now that Russia, via Putin, is being held responsible for pretty much everything which is no longer working well for Western engineered neoliberal/neocon globalism. In fact, the stream of accusations against Putin’s Russia have descended into near or actual farce, due mainly to the fact that they are not backed by any factual evidence. We are all simply supposed to ‘know’ that Mr Evil is at it again and that the West must ready itself to take action against his ‘tyrannical activities’.

Clamping down on viral fake news, Facebook partners with sites like Snopes and adds new user reporting. A new system funnels fake news reports to fact-checkers from Snopes, PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, ABC, and AP.

Facebook screen image highlights the role the social media giant plays for the Deep State

Excerpt from article above:

Once a story has been flagged as fake, the most complex element of the new strategy begins. A Facebook spokesperson walked me through how the fact-checking process will work. Facebook is working with, to start, a handful of third-party, U.S.-based fact-checking organizations: ABC News, Snopes, PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, and AP. (The sites are part of Poynter’s International Fact Checking Network and have agreed to a “fact-checkers’ code of principles.”)

Because the group of third-party fact-checkers is small at launch, and as part of its effort to focus on the highest-impact “worst of the worst,” Facebook is doing some sorting before the reported stories go to the fact-checkers. Its algorithm will look at whether a large number of people are reporting a particular article, whether or not the article is going viral, and whether the article has a high rate of shares. Facebook has also already had a system in place, for about a year, that uses signals around content (such as how people are responding to it in comments) to determine whether that content is a hoax.

The end result is tailored to the Deep States needs via the Facebook process:

And who gets to do all this ‘fact’ checking for you? The FreeThought Project has the scoop on Snopes……

Snopes, the Supposed Arbiter of ‘Fake News’ — Accused of ‘Defrauding Own Site to Pay for Prostitutes

Facebook’s choice to hire Snopes to arbitrate which news items will be allowed to stand and which should receive the Scarlet-Letter label ‘disputed’ already brought outrage — the site is notoriously left-leaning — but an exclusive report from the Daily Mail on alleged shady dealings should turn Mark Zuckerberg’s cheeks a deep shade of red.

David and Barbara Mikkelson, ex-spouses and founders of Snopes, have been hurling accusations allegations at one another in an ongoing bitter legal dispute following their divorce — and many of the claims don’t exactly give the company an air of professionalism.

Barbara, in court filings, accuses David of “raiding” Snopes’ bank account “for his personal use and attorney fees” and embezzling “$98,000 from our company over the course of four years, which were monies he expended upon himself and the prostitutes he hired …”

….Since the acrimonious divorce, David hired Elyssa Young — better known as Erin O’Bryn, a longtime escort and porn star, and now his wife — as administrative assistant at Snopes. According to the Daily Mail, Young’s escort profiles on professional sites and social media are still active, though it’s unclear whether she still works in that field.

This part interested me because this person writes so much for Snopes. Is it true? Don’t know.

Young isn’t the only eyebrow-raising Snopes employee — Kim LaCapria, the company’s lead ‘fact-checker,’ boasts openly of being a dominatrix known as “Vice Vixen,” and wrote on her personal blog she “played scrabble [sic], smoked pot, and posted to Snopes. That’s what I did on my day ‘on’ too.”

The irony of fake news being decided by Snopes is so ridiculous that even the Daily Mail UK saw fit to point it out…..

But the website’s own troubles and the intriguing choice of who carries out its ‘fact checks’ are revealed by DailyMail.com, as one of its main contributors is disclosed to be a former sex-blogger who called herself ‘Vice Vixen’.

Snopes.com will benefit from Facebook’s decision to allow users to report items in their newsfeed which they believe to be ‘fake’.

It is asking a number of organizations to arbitrate on items which are reported or which Facebook staff think may not be genuine, and decide whether they should be marked as ‘disputed’.

Picture credit of UK Mail

Husband and wife: David Mikkelson is now married to Snopes.com staff member Elyssa Young – but also engaged in a bitter legal battle with his former wife Barbara with whom he set up the site

How did this all come about? Fair.org decided to investigate the threat to powerful Washington Deep State information tools like the flagship “Washington Post” that sites that have been deemed ‘fake news’ are exposing…..

WaPo Spreading Own Falsehoods Shows Real Power of Fake News
By Adam Johnson

WaPo: Russian operation hacked a Vermont utility, showing risk to U.S. electrical grid security, officials say. Washington Post story (12/31/16) with revised headline and a never-mind editor’s note. Is this “fake news”? The putative scourge of “fake news” has been one of the most pervasive post-election media narratives. The general thrust goes like this: A torrent of fake news swept the internet, damaging Hillary Clinton and possibly leading to a Donald Trump victory.
A primary problem with this convenient-to-some narrative is that “fake news” has yet to be clearly defined by anyone. Vaguely conceptualized as misleading or outright fabricated stories, it can mean anything—as FAIR has noted previously (12/1/16)—from outlets that align with “Russian viewpoints” to foreign spam.

The Washington Post (11/24/16) last week published a front-page blockbuster that quickly went viral: Russia-promoted “fake news” had infiltrated the newsfeeds of 213 million Americans during the election, muddying the waters in a disinformation scheme to benefit Donald Trump. Craig Timberg’s story was based on a “report” from an anonymous group (or simply a person, it’s unclear) calling itself PropOrNot that blacklisted over 200 websites as agents or assets of the Russian state.

The obvious implication was that an elaborate Russian psyop had fooled the public into voting for Trump based on a torrent of misleading and false information posing as news. Everyone from Bloomberg’s Sahil Kupar to CNN’s to Robert Reich to Anne Navarro to MSNBC’s Joy Ann Reid tweeted out the story in breathless tones. Center for American Progress and Clinton advocate Neera Tanden even did her best Ron Paul YouTube commenter impression, exclaiming, “Wake up people.”

But the story didn’t stand up to the most basic scrutiny. Follow-up reporting cast major doubt on the Washington Post’s core claims and underlying logic, the two primary complaints being 1) the “research group” responsible for the meat of the story, PropOrNot, is an anonymous group of partisans (if more than one person is involved) who tweet like high schoolers, and 2) the list of supposed Russian media assets, because its criteria for Russian “fake news” encompasses “useful idiots,” includes entirely well-within-the-mainstream progressive and libertarian websites such as Truth-Out, Consortium News, TruthDig and Antiwar.com (several of whom are now considering lawsuits against PropOrNot for libel).

PropOrNot says their criteria for “Russian propaganda” is “behavioral” and “motivation-agnostic,” so even those who publish views that simply coincide with the Russian government’s, regardless of intent or actual links to Russia, are per se Kremlin assets—an absurd metric that casts a net so wide as to render the concept meaningless. Glenn Greenwald and Ben Norton of The Intercept (11/26/16) called PropOrNot “amateur peddlers of primitive, shallow propagandistic clichés” who were “engaging in extremely dubious McCarthyite tactics about a wide range of critics and dissenters.” Fortune magazine’s Matthew Ingram (11/25/16) insisted the report had the “beginnings of a conspiracy theory, rather than a scientific analysis,” while AlterNet’s Max Blumenthal (11/26/16) lamented that “insiders have latched onto a McCarthyite campaign that calls for government investigations of a wide array of alternative media outlets.”